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Re: RFE: Date Format
- To: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: RFE: Date Format
- From: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 19:17:28 -0500
- References: <3A57C363.AA75E30F@rebel.net.au>
| Reason:
| Elimination of International Date Format Issues
Can anyone site examples where international date format issues arise
in technical documentation? I'm aware that they do exist, and that
<date>1/2/2001</date> is ambiguous, but I'm not convinced that this is
a real, practical problem for DocBook users.
In what context is this date format ambiguity causing problems?
With respect to the larger question of how to represent dates and
times, I draw your attention to the lengthy and detailed discussions
on the w3c-xml-schema-ig list.
Be seeing you,
norm
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Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | 'I have done that,' says my
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | memory. 'I cannot have done
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | that'--says my pride, and remains
| adamant. At last--memory
| yields.--Nietzsche